Abstract

This second Volume of essays, following on from Tribades, Tommies and Trangressives; Histories of Sexualities (Vol. 1), was inspired by the fifteenth annual Lesbian Lives conference, “Historicising the Lesbian,” held in University College Dublin. The chapters chosen for inclusion in this volume follow the high standard of scholarship established in Volume 1 and contain an extraordinary collection which, once again, covers a
wide-range of historical interests related to lesbian studies. This collection of essays has three main sections which focus on; Literature and Historical
Fiction; Lesbian Activism and Lesbian Academe; as well as Music, Art and Popular Culture.